/usr/bin/xzless is in xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2ubuntu2.
This file is owned by root:root, with mode 0o755.
The actual contents of the file can be viewed below.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 | #!/bin/bash
# Copyright (C) 1998, 2002, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation
# The original version for gzip was written by Paul Eggert.
# Modified for XZ Utils by Andrew Dudman and Lasse Collin.
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#SET_PATH - This line is a placeholder to ease patching this script.
# Instead of unsetting XZ_OPT, just make sure that xz will use file format
# autodetection. This way memory usage limit and thread limit can be
# specified via XZ_OPT.
xz='xz --format=auto'
version='xzless (XZ Utils) 5.1.0alpha'
usage="Usage: ${0##*/} [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Like 'less', but operate on the uncompressed contents of xz compressed FILEs.
Options are the same as for 'less'.
Report bugs to <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>."
case $1 in
--help) echo "$usage" || exit 2; exit;;
--version) echo "$version" || exit 2; exit;;
esac
if test "${LESSMETACHARS+set}" != set; then
# Work around a bug in less 394 and earlier;
# it mishandles the metacharacters '$%=~'.
space=' '
tab=' '
nl='
'
LESSMETACHARS="$space$tab$nl'"';*?"()<>[|&^`#\$%=~'
fi
if test "$(less -V | { read ver && ver=${ver#less } && echo ${ver%% *}; })" -ge 429; then
# less 429 or later: LESSOPEN pipe will be used on
# standard input if $LESSOPEN begins with |-.
LESSOPEN="|-$xz -cdfq -- %s"
else
LESSOPEN="|$xz -cdfq -- %s"
fi
export LESSMETACHARS LESSOPEN
exec less "$@"
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